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Congregation Agudath Israel Awarded Mini-Grant From Hadassah

Hadassah Foundation celebrating 13 years of grantmaking by presenting 13 mini-grants to organizations serving young Jewish people.

Congregation Agudath Israel of West Essex in Caldwell is one of 13 Jewish organizations across the country to be awarded a mini-grant by the Hadassah Foundation.

The Hadassah Foundation is celebrating 13 years of grantmaking—its “bat mitzvah year”—by presenting 13 mini-grants to organizations serving young Jewish people.

The 13 Bat Mitzvah Year Mini-Grants support new or expanded programs which support the physical, spiritual and emotional well-being of Jewish girls and young women, according to a press release.

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“We are delighted that this mini-grant program will enable so many youth-serving organizations in the Jewish community to create feminist-oriented programming,” stated Donna Gerson, Chair of the Hadassah Foundation, in a release. “This program enables us to reach many new communities that normally wouldn’t be touched by the Hadassah Foundation.”

will use the $500 mini-grant to conduct a program about how mainstream media contributes to the underrepresentation of women in positions of power and influence.

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The other dozen grants were presented to organizations in 11 states from all major Jewish denominations, synagogues, day schools, community-based organizations, an after-school program for high schoolers and a Jewish board of education.

The Hadassah Foundation augments the work of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, by seeking ways to improve the status, health and well-being of women and girls in the United States and Israel.


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